For Bart and Pieces not to be considered among the best of all time is a shame. It's not their fault there's no internet access in the afterlife.

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickWhat happens when all the renewable energy runs out?-- Victoria AylingEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."

This forum has moved from software package to software package, database to database, server to server. We have also, needless to say, been subjected to cyber-attack by religious asshats. Posts have been lost, databases corrupted, users deleted.

The raw data lacks internal validity: the dataset is not complete. Therefore any descriptive statistics or inferences made from it also lack validity and therefore reliability.

To compound the problem, the onboard database query is utterly, utterly borked, and irretrievably so. Admins and Mods use Google to find forum content, not the search function.

Also, I am not a really good Pastafarian. I am also an ordained Dudeist Priest and a novice monk of the Toadfish Monastery. The stats tell you next to nothing about the people, only how many of their posts survive in the current version of the forum.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

gronank wrote:Did something happen 2009? because that year saw a drop outside the trend decay for semi regular posters but not regular posters

Yes. Something happened in 2009. We don't talk about that any more.I wasn't here, most of the protagonists of the time are no longer here, they agreed a settlement whereby they deleted a lot of arguments from the forum, and exported a whole board to become its own forum elsewhere. Like I said, incomplete data.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

Roy Hunter wrote: I am also an ordained Dudeist Priest and a novice monk of the Toadfish Monastery.

Very interesting. The one movie on "maybe I should watch" list I've never seen is The Big Lebowski. Hmmm, could this be a sign from the Noodly One?

The Big Lebowski is a 'Must Watch'. No question about it. I signed up to the Dudeism forum, but it was full of Walters, not Dudes. Still, the movie is genius, and it gives you an excuse to drink White Russians.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

gronank wrote:Did something happen 2009? because that year saw a drop outside the trend decay for semi regular posters but not regular posters

Yes. Something happened in 2009. We don't talk about that any more.I wasn't here, most of the protagonists of the time are no longer here, they agreed a settlement whereby they deleted a lot of arguments from the forum, and exported a whole board to become its own forum elsewhere. Like I said, incomplete data.

Those events occured in 06/07 , 09 was the year Nef Yoo and his bilge rats infested the harbour.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

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i have read the revelations of auntie dee dee on page 125 of the loose cannon. it was about punctuation marks or something like that. what was her username on here?

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

All things pineapple are wonderful. My brother’s soul for example (I bet him in poker once too much, so now it’s officially mine…god, that must have been thirty years ago). The teeth wouldn’t bother me. I’ve never heard of a truly original sin, and I know most of the verses of the Hedgehog Song AND A Wizard’s Staff has a Knob on the End. Bassoons are pretty necessary. Hey, as long as you get to eat the Holy Meal, the form of the meat isn’t that big a deal. (New toys!! Hee!) And I want luggage made of sapient pearwood. No, I NEED luggage made of sapient pearwood. Ah, well, maybe down a different split in the Trousers of Time. I think my hard drive was wired in wrong, and my RAM is dysfunctional. Once installed it never goes away completely, and it’s too easily hacked, with a self-replicating virus that trashes the whole system. Profits do NOT drive innovation. Government grants and university research drives innovation.